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‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

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400 points redbell | 2 comments | 06 Aug 23 15:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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leshenka ◴[06 Aug 23 16:06 UTC] No.37023360[source]▶
Oh it's okay, it's a single-player game, it's not that you need any server capacity for that. Other than download servers but it's Steam's problem, not publisher's.

...right?

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1. meltyness ◴[06 Aug 23 16:07 UTC] No.37023377[source]▶
kind of like how disk shouldn't be a bottleneck for framerate, but, you know... how we forget.
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2. alasdair_ ◴[06 Aug 23 18:08 UTC] No.37024859[source]▶
BG3 even has an explicit “slow hd” toggle in the options to help mitigate this issue.